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Sleeping Beauty recreated by artist Taras Polataiko at the National Art Museum in Kiev |
| September 8th, 2012 01:35:11 am |
KIEV (AP).- Looking for true love? Fall asleep in Ukraine's top museum and wait for a kiss. A Ukrainian-Canadian artist is presenting an interactive art project called "Sleeping Beauty," in which five attractive young women take turns sleeping under dim lights in Kiev's top gallery, each under a pledge to marry the visitor who wakes her with a kiss. Any unmarried museum-goer can kiss the woman in the hope of making Beauty fall in love and awaken. Taras Polataiko, a Ukrainian-born artist now based in Canada, says the goal of his exhibit is to recreate the famous fairy tale and witness the birth of love. But it also has political undertones, symbolizing the patience of the Ukrainian people trapped by what he calls the oppressive government of President Viktor Yanukovych, and hopes that the nation will one day awaken to true freedom. "I am turning the |
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